Quote from: nwi on October 06, 2012, 00:01:03
same here, ... really missing the valuable review from notebookcheck for the e6530.
would love to see a test with the i7-3720qm, nvidia grafic and fhd display.  ...

Problem for me with i7-3720QM is the 45W TDP (and its price).  As my last Dell overheated and the Ivy XPS 15 has various problems including overheating/bad throttling which the Notebookcheck review acknowledged,  including its FHD screen not being as good for photography/film viewing as on their previous models, I prefer a CPU of 25 or 35W TDP max.    Maybe even a top end ULV (i7-3667U or i5-3427U) is enough for me - except Dell don't offer ULV options on their 15" Notebooks, so their choice is low consumption/poor display or good display/high consumption.

The FHD screen :  MC6JN-156WF1 reviewed in Dell's previous Latitude (E6520) got a very good review, excellent contrast of 669, almost full sRGB colour gamut so I hope Dell haven't downgraded it   (why they couldn't have used that in the XPS 15 I don't know).    The XPS 15 refresh brought a welcome 23.2mm slim body but unfortunately didn't cut energy consumption or weight - curiously heavier than the new Latitude, which sadly kept the fat body but did cut weight.

Intel has at last seen the need to reduce energy consumption with Sandy & Ivy Bridge, with a much bigger reduction to 10W TDP promised with nextgen Haswell without loss of performance.  But that means waiting another 6 months ?  The reduction in CPU consumption has not been matched by energy reductions in the rest of the Notebook, hence the continuing problems of overheating, noise and weight, as a large/heavy battery (not removable in XP 15) is fitted to provide all that heat.

same here, ... really missing the valuable review from notebookcheck for the e6530.
would love to see a test with the i7-3720qm, nvidia grafic and fhd display.
crossing fingers, as i need to buy a new machine soon ...

You often review laptops within a month of release.    The Ivy Bridge Latitude E6530 refresh has been out 4 months now, but no review.

When is your review of the E6530 coming out ?

And as your reviewers point out, reason many choose a 15.6" screen is for choice of a higher quality panel option for photo work, that is rarely an option below 15".

I like your well structured review format with permanent sections for Screen, Noise, Heat, Exterior Ports etc.

However, your coverage of Internal Ports is very much hit & miss.   Can you update your review format to included a permanent section to list Internal Ports eg mSATA, mini-PCIe, their quantity & specification (eg. PCIe V3, speed), whether used by the manufacturer eg for WWLAN.  Eg. it is not always clear if there are enough slots for both a SSD Cache AND a WWLAN.  Dell normally occupies 1 slot for WiFi/BT.
Can you also add a permanent section to review WiFi range/speed, whether on 2.4 or 5GHz or both; preferably in form of a table.   I see others commented XPS 15 for example has severe WiFi problems - but one would not know that from your review.